Ryan Bosworth

Utah State University

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Kynda R. Curtis

Utah State University

Ryan Barnes

Utah State University

Kevin Heaslip

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Trudy Ann Cameron

University of Oregon

Ali Soltani-Sobh

Florida Department of Transportation

J.R. DeShazo

University of California, Los Angeles

DeeVon Bailey

Utah State University

Tyler J. Bowles

Utah State University

P.D. LARK

UNSW Sydney

B Craven

Australian National University

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Farmers’ Market Consumer Preferences for Fresh Produce Attributes: Marketing and Policy Implications

Journal of agribusiness (2015)

Gumirakiza J. Dominique Kynda R. Curtis Ryan Bosworth

Agribusiness

10.22004/ag.econ.311373

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Farm Household Wealth: Measurement, Structure, and Determinants

Tyler J. Bowles Ryan Bosworth

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CNG Vehicles: A Financially Viable Option?

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting (2016)

Ali Soltani-Sobh Kevin Heaslip Ryan Bosworth Ryan Barnes

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Willingness to Pay for Private Labels, National Brands, and Local Designations at the Retail Level

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (2013)

Ryan Bosworth DeeVon Bailey Kynda R. Curtis

A shopper survey was conducted to determine willingness to pay for ice cream with different labels. A statistical analysis was conducted using stated choices by respondents. The randomized choices were 1) a local brand with or without an indication it had a Utah’s Own designation, 2) a local brand with and without a locally-produced designation, 3) a private label product , and 4) a national brand product. The results suggested that brands affect willingness to pay for ice cream. However, shoppers were willing to pay a significant positive amount more for ice cream with the local designations.

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Patterns in Student Assignment to Elementary School Classrooms

Education Policy Analysis Archives (2013)

Ryan Bosworth Hao Li

In an effort to better understand aggregate patterns in the way elementary school students are assigned to classes, we conduct a careful analysis of observed classroom assignment outcomes in the 5th grade in North Carolina elementary schools. First, we model the probability that a pair of students are classmates as a function of the characteristics of that pair of students. This novel methodological technique enables us to directly observe the degree to which actual assignment patterns differ from what might be expected under random assignment for a wide variety of student characteristics. Second, we analyze patterns in classroom assignment and discuss the implications of these patterns. We show that classroom assignments tend to deviate from random assignment in a way that tends to group similar students and that these deviations tend to be greatly magnified in Magnet schools. Importantly, we find evidence that administrators sort students based on attributes not normally observable by researchers. These findings have important implications for researchers using value-added modeling (VAM) techniques. Finally, we find that classroom assignment patterns are generally stable across the racial, income, and geographic characteristics of schools.

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Value (mathematics)

10.14507/epaa.v21n51.2013

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What sort of school sorts students?

International Journal of Quantitative Research in Education (2013)

Ryan Bosworth

Richly detailed data from the North Carolina public school system is used to investigate the extent to which student assignment to 4th and 5th grade classrooms appear unbalanced with respect to race, gender, socioeconomic status, and academic achievement in the years 2001–2004. Analysis reveals that classrooms are rarely unbalanced with respect to racial and gender characteristics. However, classrooms that are unbalanced with respect to socio-economic status, academic achievement, and parental education levels are relatively more common. The relationship between unbalanced classroom assignment and school financial, administrative, socio-economic, and geographic characteristics is also analysed. Analysis shows that unbalanced classrooms are statistically more common in school districts with higher levels of federal funding, urban schools that are predominantly African-American, and in magnet schools. However, unbalanced classrooms are less common in academically successful schools with few black students, in rural schools that are predominantly white, and in Wake County.

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Racial composition

10.1504/ijqre.2013.055639

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An Empirical Basis for Allocating Enterprise and Personal Goodwill

Business Valuation Review (2010)

Tyler J. Bowles Ryan Bosworth

Abstract Van Amburgh's methodology for allocating personal and enterprise goodwill is flawed. We present a standard empirical approach that can be applied to the problem of allocating goodwill. Based on survey data of professional accounting firms, we apply regression analysis and estimate the percentage of total goodwill that is personal goodwill. These results suggest that personal goodwill for relatively small professional accounting practices ranges from approximately 45% to 88% of total goodwill. The same methodology and data are also applied to the problem of determining an individual owner's share of total personal goodwill.

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Basis (linear algebra)

10.5791/0897-1781-29.1.4

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Consumer Willingness to Pay for Local Designations: Brand Effects and Heterogeneity at the Retail Level

Journal of Food Products Marketing (2014)

Ryan Bosworth DeeVon Bailey Kynda R. Curtis

This study examines consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for packaged ice cream with local, private label, and national brands at the retail level. Data were collected through in-person surveys conducted at retail grocery outlets in Utah in 2012. Study results suggest that shoppers are willing to pay significantly more for the national and local brands over the retailer’s private label brand. In fact, the local brand with the state-sponsored designation (Utah’s Own) had a WTP equal to that of the national brand. The use of local designations or labels is important as shoppers were not willing to pay a premium for the local brands in absence of the locally produced or state-sponsored designation label. Additionally, consumer WTP for different brands and the degree of response to local designations varies substantially by consumer attributes. These differences suggest that locally designated products do not compete directly with private label products in the market. This study provides clear evidence of the value of state-sponsored designations, as well as locally produced labeling for food products marketed in a traditional retail setting.

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Retail sales

Value (mathematics)

Store brand

10.1080/10454446.2013.843488

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Advances in Evaluating the Demand for Risk Prevention Policies

Ryan Bosworth Trudy Ann Cameron J.R. DeShazo

We evaluate several concerns related to measuring the demand for public risk prevention policies, using an innovative national survey and new modeling strategies. We find that the omission of avoided morbidity leads to an upward bias in estimates of the marginal utility of avoided deaths. Individuals experience diminishing marginal utility in the scope of mortality- and morbidity-reducing policies. Individual attitudes towards government involvement and, particularly, perceptions of the personal benefits of different policies, appear to be important determinants of demand. Finally, we uncover little evidence of heterogeneity in demand for public health policies according to the proximate health threat (e.g. cancer, stroke, respiratory disease, injury) or the underlying cause (e.g. exposure to contaminants in air, water, food; highway hazards).

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Willingness to pay for public health policies to treat illnesses

Journal of Health Economics (2014)

Ryan Bosworth Trudy Ann Cameron J.R. DeShazo

Marginal utility

Fractionalization

Health Economics

Survey data collection

10.1016/j.jhealeco.2014.10.004

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